Page 10 - Mihir S Sharma/workspace/business Standard Web/undefined

How to spend Rs 46,000 crore

UDAN is a worthy initiative, but we still have Air India's enormous debt hanging around our neck

Sacred laissez-faire

An economist makes a cogent argument for a free market in belief and religion

Mihir S Sharma: Demonetisation difficulties will be here for a while

Vegetable prices have crashed because of a shortage of cash at mandis

Fear of the Raid Raj: Ill-effects of 50 days of demonetisation

Demonetisation difficulties will be here for a while

Mihir S Sharma: All the President's books

Barack Obama is not just a reader, he is a genuine writer

Mihir S Sharma: No compromise

There is an assumption we must revisit about the right-wing, populist turn in global politics

Mihir S Sharma: A big, destructive bang

Post-demonetisation, this government's reputation for decision-making and implementation lies in tatters

Mihir S Sharma: Harry Potter and the unexpected return

J K Rowling's creation is again at the forefront of the public imagination, more than a decade after the last book was released, is different

Mihir S Sharma: Liberals and losers

In the aftermath of Hillary Clinton's defeat, an ugly and unpleasant impulse has taken hold of many American liberals

Mihir S Sharma: America's choice, global crisis

India needs global stability and trade to grow. This election takes that away from us

Mihir S Sharma: The GDP wheeze

The costs of improving Delhi's air are known, and GDP accounts for them. But not the benefits

Mihir S Sharma: In bad faith

It is unconscionable that Indians should be locked into a particular religious community, forced to follow a particular personal law, because of either birth or past choices

Mihir S Sharma: US elections: Will nothing change for Wall Street?

It should not be too sure that if Hillary Clinton takes over from Barack Obama as US President, it would be business as usual

Mihir S Sharma: How to create peace

It's when relations are toughest that it becomes most important to see if economic relations with Pakistan can be enhanced

Mihir S Sharma: Elena Ferrante, Lionel Shriver, and 'identity'

Mihir S Sharma: Unwelcome in India

The government is going out of its way to make foreign investment feel unwanted and insecure

Mihir S Sharma: Amnesty attacked

Mihir S Sharma: Truth from the ramparts

Prime ministers have never really taken Indians into confidence about why and what policy reforms they intend

Mihir S Sharma: Rohith Vemula's timeless timeline

Mihir S Sharma: What freedom means

The most basic element of freedom for any individual is protection from arbitrary state action -- something India has failed to provide to its citizens